In the EuroWordNet-project we will construct wordnets from existing resources for Spanish, Dutch and Italian, similar to the Princeton WordNet1.5. Each of these wordnets will be developed as a separate language-internal system but each meaning will be linked to the closest meaning in WordNet1.5. In this way we hope to combine information from independently created resources, making the ultimate...

Legal resources in different national standards have been named using two different identifiers, both backed up by the W3C and IETF: Italian NormeInRete and Brazilian LexML rely on urn-based URIs, while African Akoma Ntoso, Dutch Metalex and many others use http-based URI. Purpose of this abstract is three-fold: first, we show that http-based URIs have the same useful characteristics that urn-b...

How do fertility transitions affect childrenŠs resources? Existing perspectives provide two seemingly different answers: ŞDilutionŤ arguments focusing on family size predict growth in average resources, while ŞdivergenceŤ arguments focusing on family structure predict increased inequality. We suggest that these two perspectives are complementary and reconcilable within an integrated framework. ...

Our cultural discourse is increasingly carried in the web. With the initial emergence of the web many years ago, there was a period where conventional mediums (e.g., music, movies, books, scholarly publications) were primary and the web was a supplementary channel. This has now changed, where the web is often the primary channel, and other publishing mechanisms, if present at all, supplement th...